Questions for you (amiga-project)

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7. Go for the most modern chip. Design time is long and when you finish the prototype prices of the powervr3 (does it exist?) will have come down. Who knows a powervr4 may have appeared.

Um... PowerVR 3 came out in 2000, that's what the Kyro/Kyro II are.  PowerVR 4 was canned and PowerVR have focused efforts on their embedded designs, like MBX.

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@Karlos

Actually it still is an issue, as ATI and nVidia have spent a lot of silicon trying to by-pass PowerVR's patents on the process.  nVidia bought 3Dfx just for 3Dfx's patent for a similar process, which is used in today's 5900FX.

But none of them are as good as PVR's technique, well worth investigating as the PVR just lacks a few functions to be turned into a modern day competitor.  (you're comparing 4-pipeline solutions running at 300Mhz+ with a 1-pipeline solution running at 133Mhz, imagine if you superscale the PVR and ramped up the clock speed)